With this solicitation, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to provide grants to jurisdictions to improve outcomes for adults on community supervision.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The FY 2024 Smart Supervision Program’s goal is to increase the ability and capacity of probation and parole agencies to improve supervision success rates by more effectively addressing individuals’ risk and needs and reducing recidivism, thereby increasing community safety as well as reducing crime and unnecessary admissions to prisons and jails.
Objectives
- Support the development of community supervision agencies throughout the country by:
- improving the quality and capacity of programs and services to meet the identified needs of clients,
- increasing collaboration among justice and other agencies relevant to the supervision population,
- examining and revising policies and practices to align with best and promising practices, and
- focusing agency resources where they can have the greatest impact.
- Support the development of community supervision staff throughout the country by:
- increasing training and other skill-building opportunities to achieve client success;
- improving supervision officer health and wellness;
- exploring and facilitating use of technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning, other advanced applications) or tool adoption to strengthen supervision effectiveness; and
- strengthening the organization’s culture to reduce recidivism through committed staff engagement.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded under This Solicitation: $5,100,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: Up to $850,000
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Other- For the purposes of this solicitation, “other” refers to an organizing body or association of supervision agencies that may submit a single application for a Smart Supervision project engaging more than one supervision office, district, or agency (“entity”). The applicant must have capacity to administer the award and include a Memorandum of Understanding or Letter of Intent from each entity’s chief executive.
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
